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Alan Cheuse Discusses “A Trance After Breakfast,” His New Collection of Travel Essays

Throughout the course of his distinguished career, Alan Cheuse has proven himself adept at a variety of forms: the novel, […]

Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda seems to have taken a shine to a couple of North Carolina’s finest writers

My review in today’s Washington Post (Tuesday, May 26) could hardly have been timed better — a testament to the

A couple of years back, I needed a poisonous plant to spike a drink and kill a man. This was

This weekend — Saturday, May 23, to be precise — marks the 75th anniversary of the day Bonnie and Clyde

Given all the recent talk about the potential closing of literary journals (including both the New England Review and the

I’ll be down at the beach for Memorial Day weekend, and in keeping with a coastal N.C. theme, I want

Several things drew me to the Rivka Galchen event last night, hosted by Nextbook at the Washington DCJCC — not the

While I’ve written several times about plays on this site, I have to emphasize that I’m not pretending to be

On Sunday, May 17, I had the good fortune to hear C.M. Mayo read from her new novel, The Last

On Wednesday, May 13, South Carolina Educational TV and the University of South Carolina’s Institute for Southern Studies aired “What

The next week brings some heavy-hitters to bookstores in the Triangle and throughout Eastern North Carolina, so even if there’s